Quotes about Admiration

16 quotes about Admiration

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

Quote by John Adams about admiration

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Quote by Joseph Addison about admiration

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that...

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Quote by Joseph Addison about admiration

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Quote by Jane Austen about admiration

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to...

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Quote by Orson Scott about admiration

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the...

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Quote by Jane Austen about admiration

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with...

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about admiration

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men...

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about admiration

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about admiration

You always admire what you really don't understand.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about admiration

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

Quote by George Pataki about admiration

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin about admiration

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power...

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about admiration

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Quote by George Carlin about admiration

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love...

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

Quote by Rupert Brooke about admiration

Pretect me, God, from the admiration of fools!

Pretect me, God, from the admiration of fools!

Quote by Ion Cristofor about admiration

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